Madrigal

“On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” - Charles Babbage

This isn’t new. Reddit mods have been like this for a decade or more. And the admins let them get away with it because they get free labour from them.

Today it’s immigrants and trans people.

Bonus points if you use an LLM to generate said illegible nonsense.

For web browsing? No.

I miss mid-90s IRC. That was far more social than any ‘social’ media I’ve experienced since.

“Shitto” is a real name in Zimbabwe.

Wouldn’t want them anywhere that is prone to earthquakes - the entire Pacific rim, for example.

YouTube’s algorithm is weirdly prone to fixation, and quite hard to train out of habits.

My bane is ASMR videos. I watched a couple of vids on physiotherapy a few years back and that’s it. The ASMR crowd had been all through the comments and I guess that was enough for the algorithm to make the link. Now it won’t let go no matter how many times I hit “not interested”.

I refuse to look up anything food related in case I end up with mukbang all through my feed.

Don’t Google that, by the way. You’re better off ignorant.

The bit I really like it how it established hyperspace tracking as a thing WAAAAY before TLJ.

Reddit has been employing all kinds of sketchy shit for years - including some fairly invasive behavioural fingerprinting techniques. And a lot of it has been abused by “powermods” who figured out how to game it.

Good chance these people simply said something that someone didn’t agree with and got flagged by some prick with a runaway ego.

Not a caver, but I’ve watched a few spelunking vids online. The attitude of most - at least on camera - seems to be that you respect the cave and tackle it as-is rather than trying to modify it.

As I recall, they were very selective in the hate speech they documented. Posts that showed hate speech coming from their favoured groups were swiftly removed.